More Reasons to Love 'Cloud' Computing

7/12/2012 3:25PM

There's a lesson to be learned from Amazon's cloud computing outage two weeks ago that knocked Netflix and other websites offline. WSJ's John Bussey takes a seat on Mean Street to explain. Photo: Getty Images.

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